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CTC GLOBAL
The Advanced Conductor™
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Advancing the Grid Together: 2025 a Year of Global Impact
What an amazing year it’s been for the global transmission industry - and for all of us at CTC Global. As utilities worldwide faced unprecedented load growth driven by AI, data centers, electrification, and broader economic expansion, the conversation around grid modernization shifted dramatically. Policymakers, regulators, and system operators increasingly recognized that Advanced Conductors are no longer an optional upgrade but a foundational requirement for meeting reliability, efficiency, and decarbonization goals. From influential studies by the Berkeley Haas Energy Institute, Grid Strategies, and the Brattle Group to large-scale planning initiatives across North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, 2025 marked the year the world fully embraced advanced reconductoring and high-capacity line design as essential parts of the energy transition.
For CTC Global, this global momentum translated into extraordinary progress across our technology, partnerships, and projects. ACCC® Conductor deployments expanded significantly, including high-impact installations in Bangladesh, India, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the U.S., where utilities continued to rely on ACCC® Conductor to increase grid capacity, improve efficiency, and address challenges ranging from wildfire mitigation to rapid load growth. Our teams continued to support customers with exceptional focus and collaboration, ensuring that every project delivered measurable performance improvements and long-term value while reinforcing confidence in Advanced Conductor solutions.
Most importantly, we want to thank our customers, partners, and the dedicated CTC Global team for making this year exceptional. Your trust, innovation, and commitment are the driving force behind every success we’ve achieved. Whether designing more capable new lines, solving urgent capacity challenges, preventing outages, or enabling the clean-energy transition, your partnership has helped accelerate a stronger, smarter, and more resilient grid for communities around the world. As we look ahead to 2026, we are deeply grateful for the work we’ve accomplished together - and we’re more energized than ever to continue supporting the world’s growing need for reliable, efficient, high-performance transmission solutions.
| | | | Modernizing the Grid with Proof, Performance, and Purpose | In this article we examine why reconductoring with proven Advanced Conductors has become the fastest and most practical path to grid modernization. With accelerating demand from electrification, AI, data centers, and renewable integration, the piece explains how utilities can dramatically increase capacity, reduce losses, and strengthen resilience simply by upgrading conductors on existing lines. It highlights independently verified ACCC® Conductor performance data, clarifies the differences between true high-temperature solutions and less-proven alternatives, and underscores why reconductoring is emerging as a credible, scalable strategy for meeting today’s grid challenges. It’s an insightful look at how meaningful results - not claims - are shaping the future of transmission. | | | | Who Said ACCC® Conductor is Only Good for Reconductoring Projects? | This article highlights how Bangladesh’s new 400 kV transmission corridor is changing perceptions about where ACCC® Conductor delivers the greatest value. Long recognized for its unmatched performance in reconductoring projects, ACCC® Technology is proving equally powerful - and in many ways even more advantageous - on long-distance, high-voltage greenfield lines. By combining high capacity, exceptional efficiency, low thermal expansion, and strong long-span performance, ACCC® Conductor is helping Bangladesh and several other countries build a modern transmission backbone that supports load growth, renewable integration, and regional energy connectivity. The story offers a compelling look at how Advanced Conductors are reshaping EHV line design and why major utilities are adopting ACCC® Conductor for their most strategic new corridors. | | | | Why Advanced Conductors Must Become the Backbone of the Modern Grid | Here is a good case for why Advanced Conductors must become a central pillar of modern grid planning. As load growth accelerates driven by AI, electrification, renewables, and extreme weather, the grid is being pushed far beyond the assumptions that shaped transmission design decades ago. While many utilities still rely on legacy steel-core conductors, this article explains why this mindset is no longer compatible with today’s operational realities - or tomorrow’s demands. It explores how modern composite-core solutions like ACCC® Conductor improve capacity, reliability, efficiency, and wildfire resilience, and why regulators and system operators worldwide are increasingly treating advanced reconductoring as an essential strategy rather than a niche option. It’s a timely look at how the industry must evolve to meet the challenges ahead. | | | | |
16 ACCC® Projects Recently Energized
97 ACCC® Projects Under Construction
59 ACCC® Projects Scheduled to Start
1,450+ ACCC® Projects Completed
| | Why the Collet Hardware System Is Essential for Composite Core Conductors | As utilities accelerate their shift toward Advanced Composite Core Conductors to meet rising energy demand, reduce losses, and strengthen grid resilience, one critical factor is too often overlooked: the hardware that anchors these high-performance conductors to the system. This month, we spotlight why proper termination isn’t just a technical detail - it’s a defining factor in the long-term safety and success of any composite conductor deployment. In this post, we describe the essential role of the Collet Hardware System, which dispels the risky myth that composite conductors can be installed with “conventional” compression fittings, and explains why precision-engineered terminations are the foundation on which reliable, next-generation grid infrastructure must be built. | | | | |
Trans Tech 2025
December 10-12 | Dwarka, New Delhi
| CTC Global is proud to be a Platinum Sponsor of TransTech India 2025, the country’s leading power transmission event hosted by Power Line magazine. We invite our partners, customers, and industry colleagues to meet us in New Delhi as utilities, policymakers, developers, and technology providers gather to discuss the future of the Indian grid. With rapid load growth and major transmission expansion underway, the conference is an ideal opportunity to see how ACCC® Conductors are helping utilities across India boost capacity, cut losses, and improve reliability. We look forward to sharing the latest ACCC® Advancements and connecting with the teams driving India’s next decade of grid modernization. Visit CTC Global at TransTech India 2025 - we look forward to seeing you there. | | | | T&D World Webinar on Advanced Conductors | View this recently recorded T&D World webinar that presents a timely review as to how Advanced Conductors are unlocking more transmission capacity - faster, cost-effectively, and without new lines. Learn why ACCC® Conductors, already deployed in 30 states and 69 countries, are rapidly gaining traction in the U.S. for improving reliability, reducing costs, and aligning with new federal and regional policy goals. This session delivers technical insights, policy context, and real utility case studies - a practical roadmap for modernizing the grid. | | | | World Bank Webinar on Advanced Conductors, Smarter Grids | |
Integrating Climate Adaptation into Power Systems: Advanced Conductors, Smarter Grids: The Future of Energy Transmission
The session explored the vital role of Advanced Conductors and smart wire technologies in modernizing power transmission. Speakers from AEP (USA) and PGCB (Bangladesh) shared their award-winning, real-world experiences reconductoring major lines, highlighting record speed and cost savings. The discussion emphasized how these innovative solutions create a more resilient, flexible, and efficient grid to handle surging demand, extreme weather, and the rapid growth of renewables and datacenters.
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NARUC Annual Meeting
November 9-12, 2025 | Seattle, WA
| Last month, CTC Global joined regulators, utilities, and industry leaders at the 2025 NARUC Annual Meeting and Education Conference to explore how innovation and collaboration could advance grid reliability, affordability, and resilience. From discussions on resource adequacy, data center demand, and wildfire resilience to panels addressing DER interconnection and next-generation transmission technologies, the agenda highlighted the same challenges CTC Global’s ACCC® Conductors help utilities solve every day - building a stronger, cleaner, and more efficient grid for the future. We appreciated the opportunity to share insights from these sessions and to engage with forward-thinking stakeholders across the energy landscape. | | | | |
CEATI T&D Conference
November 11-12, 2025 | Orlando, FL
| CTC Global was excited to join over 700 utility professionals at the CEATI Transmission & Distribution Conference, where industry leaders explored innovations driving electrification, grid resilience, and a carbon-free future. This year’s sessions covered essential topics such as Resilient and Sustainable Transmission Systems, Future-Ready Grid Planning and Operations, and Innovations in Substations and Protection Systems - all closely aligned with CTC Global’s mission to deliver high-performance, low-sag ACCC® Conductor solutions that help utilities meet growing demand with greater efficiency and reliability. We appreciated the opportunity to connect with partners and peers to discuss how Advanced Conductors are empowering utilities to build a stronger, smarter grid. | | | | Delaying Transmission Increases Costs and Reduces Benefits for Consumers | This post highlights a powerful new analysis from Grid Strategies and WIRES that puts hard numbers to a challenge utilities know all too well: every year of delay in building or upgrading transmission costs Americans billions in lost economic value. The Cost of Delayed Transmission quantifies how postponed projects drive higher congestion costs, reduced reliability, slower industrial growth, and missed opportunities for cleaner, more efficient power. Our accompanying story explores what these findings mean for the industry - and why Advanced Conductors like ACCC® Conductor offer one of the fastest, most practical ways to unlock capacity, improve efficiency, and recover value within existing corridors. It’s a timely reminder that when it comes to grid modernization, delay is costly - but proven solutions are already within reach. | | | | New Report Highlights the Urgent Need for Scalable Grid Solutions | A new Grid Strategies report, Transmission Congestion for 2024, offers a clear look at one of the nation’s most urgent challenges: the growing mismatch between transmission capacity and rapidly rising demand. The study shows congestion has become a persistent, structural issue costing U.S. consumers over $12 billion last year, driven by electrification, data center growth, renewable integration, and aging infrastructure. With new transmission expanding far too slowly, the report highlights the need for scalable, near-term solutions — including Grid-Enhancing Technologies and High-Performance Conductors. These findings align directly with the benefits of ACCC® Conductor, which can boost capacity, cut losses, and improve reliability using existing corridors. CTC Global appreciates this important work and remains committed to supporting utilities as they strengthen the modern grid. | | | | |
